All

The most accurate and readable one-volume history of India is now brought fully up to date, with new chapters covering the current Punjab crisis, the Hindu-Sikh conflicts that followed Operation...

Examining the writings of Marx and Engels on primitive societies and drawing attention to inconsistencies in their analysis of pre-capitalist societies, this study proceeds to evaluate the anthropological theories of...

"One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes." For more than sixty years, this insight from The Little Prince has been quoted in more...

When Isabelle Barnes leaves home one morning, never to return, the streets of country Carwell are awash with rumour and innuendo. And her bewildered daughter, Abbie, is left to find...

Le Divorce meets The Elegance of the Hedgehog in this hilariously entertaining mega-bestseller from France When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with...

The third novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series-the inspiration for the Hulu original series Shardlake ! C. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical...

The landmark novel that inspired Verdi's opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation "One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James,and the inspiration for...

Bestselling writer Suzy Gershman (dubbed "Super Shopper Suzy" by Oprah) is our answer to Peter Mayle in this heartfelt, breezy, and funny story of starting over in Paris. Suzy had...

French Toast is a totally pleasurable insight into the sensual delights of France through the eyes and taste buds of Peta Mathias, television personality and food writer. The former owner...

Guo Sheng now lives in a New Zealand city, but during China's Cultural Revolution her family were persecuted by the Red Guards and subjected to unspeakable violence. In her story...

A compact collection of more than 500 poems from Jack Kerouac that reveal a lesser known but important side of his literary legacy "Above all, a haiku must be very...

Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth to her, and now her dad has sent her away for the summer, to live...

Vocabulary alone isn't enough. To survive in the most sophisticated - and the most scathing - nation on Earth you will need to understand the many peculiarities of the (very...

In her sixteenth novel, Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively again shows her mastery of different viewpoints as she delves into the mystery of happy family life Allersmead is a big...

John Updike's Rabbit, Run is a classic story of dissatisfaction and restlessness. Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school. Now twenty-six, his life seems full of...

Maybe hormones ate her brain. How else did Judith's husband persuade her to give up her career and move from her beloved London to Northumberland with two toddlers in tow?...

Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal...

You've had The Big Read, now here comes The Big Think. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each...

The startling story of the French struggle for identity and unity in the bloody aftermath of the Revolution Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for...

So Bella plans never to reveal her secret after all, it's just a silly piece of paper, lodged at a registrar's office in Aberdeen, isn't it? She hasn't seen Stevie...

IN THIS MOUNTAIN finds Father Time and Cynthia again living in Mitford, following their stint on Whitecap Island a few years ago. Newly retired, Father Tim realises he dislikes change....

One of a handful of great film books. Born into a theatrical family, Chaplin's father died of drink while his mother, unable to bear the poverty, suffered from bouts of...

Big, bullish Dick Cullen, light sleeper, former rugby star and present expert on water buffalo, is lumbering through his tour of duty with a UN agency in Asia. Totally out...

The book titled A Literary Companion to Paris by the author Ian Littlewood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This new and revised edition gives definitions and examples of the past use for over 17,000 terms used in psychology, psychiatry and related fields, including terms borrowed from other disciplines...

A completely revised edition of a respected & much-loved translation by Betty Radice The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs....

An epistolary novel chronicles the cruel seduction of a young girl by two ruthless, 18th-century aristocrats.

Henry Fleming has joined the Union army because of his romantic ideas of military life, but soon finds himself in the middle of a battle against a regiment of Confederate...

From the curiosity of the elephant's child, to the crab who played with the sea, from the ingenious invention of the alphabet, to how the rhinoceros got its wrinkled skin,...

Nine haunting fairy tales: The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, The Remarkable Rocket, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The...

When Father has to go away for a time, the three children and their mother leave their London house and go to live in a small house in the country....

In this brilliant, affecting novel, acclaimed Russian novelist Andrei Makine takes readers to the vast, remote forests of eastern Siberia to tell the story of Alyosha, Utkin, and Samurai, three...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Bruce Chatwin's final, bestselling novel As Seen on BBC Between the Covers This is Chatwin's unforgettable novel of a man in war-torn Communist Prague, driven...

A moving work of startling bravery and candour of a family dislocated and united by tragedy, and a beautiful and moving tribute to a son. In July 2012 Thomas Harding's...

What if 5-2 wasn't just about weight loss? Now in paperback, 5-2 YOUR LIFE shows how the revolutionary 5-2 approach can transform your health, your wealth and your happiness -...

The entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The entertaining biography...

The frustrating, life-altering, sheer bloody pain-in-the-arse inconvenience of getting breast cancer at 28' laid bare. What do you do when you discover you have advanced breast cancer in your twenties?...

NOW A MAJOR BBC TV ADAPTATION 'Still grips the reader with its epic-narrative sweep and all-embracing humanitarianism' Douglas Kennedy, Sunday Times Read the masterful story of romance and revolution behind...

An incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all - outer space. On February 1, 2003, ten astronauts were orbiting the planet. Seven headed back to Earth...

'There is not a single E in this novel. That's right- no here, there, where, when; no yes, no love, no sex!' New York Times Book Review Anton Vowl is...

In 1960 Jill Ker Conway arrived in America from Australia. This sequel to "The Road from Coorain" tells of her gradual acclimatization to the new continent; her discovery of the...

Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty. Imber Court is a quiet haven for lost...

'Wonderfully rich... Nobody explores the way we live with more intelligence, art or humanity than she does' - Scotsman Rowena wants a baby. What she doesn't want is the baby's...